Readers Connect@the Library

Readers Connect @ the Library is on display now at the Petoskey District Library. The display includes posters of other library patrons along with collections of their favorite books. Display books are available for check-out and are updated frequently, so come and see what the community is reading!

Wendy Bean

Pride and Prejudice - Austen, Jane
The Simple Truth - Baldacci, David
The Da Vinci Code - Brown, Dan
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas, Alexandre
The Smoke Jumper - Evans, Nicholas
The Lost Painting - Harr, Jonathan
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour - L'Amour, Louis
Sarum: the novel of England - Rutherford, Edward
Almost French - Turnbull, Sarah
Sacajawea - Waldo, Anna Lee

Dianna Brown

The Mammoth Hunters - Auel, Jean
The Story of Little Black Sambo - Bannerman, Helen
The Sword of Shannara - Brooks, Terry
Journey to the River Sea - Ibbotson, Eva
The Lemonade Club - Polacco, Patricia
Harry Potter (series) - Rowling, J.K.
Skippyjon Jones - Schachner, Judy
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - Suess, Dr.
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Silverstein, Shel
Little House in the Big Woods - Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Cameron Brunet-Koch

The Velveteen Rabbit - Bianco, Margery Williams
The Secret - Byrne, Rhonda
Personal History - Graham, Katharine
Barefoot - Hilderbrand, Erin
The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindeness - Kaplan Thaler, Linda
The Last Days of Summer - Kluger, Steve
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee, Harper
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable - Lencioni, Patrick
The Last Lecture - Pausch, Randy
The Giving Tree - Silverstein, Shel

Nancy Dwan

Tess of d'Urbervilles - Hardy, Thomas
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne, Nathaniel
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee, Harper
A Sense of the World: how a blind man become history's greatest traveler - Roberts, Jason
Frankenstein - Shelly, Mary
Dracula - Stoker, Bram
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Born on a Blue Day - Tammet, Daniel
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne, Jules
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde, Oscar

Sue Fantini

The Zookeeper's Wife - Ackerman, Diane
The River Wife - Agee, Jonis
The Lace Reader - Barry, Brunonia
Molokai - Brennert, Alan
One Thousand White Women - Fergus, Jim
Water for Elephants - Gruen, Sara
Mistress of the Vatican - Herman, Eleanor
The Heretic's Daughter - Kent, Kathleen
Push Not the River - Martin, James Conroyd
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - See, Lisa

Ron Fowler

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Alexie, Sherman
Keepers of the night: Native American stories and nocturnal activities for children - Caduto, Michael J.
Hunger Games and Catching Fire - Collins, Suzanne
Magic Street - Card, Orson Scott
Little Brother - Doctorow, Cory
The Graveyard Book - Gaiman, Neil
Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs - Guthrie, Woody
Saggy Baggy Elephant - Ingoglia, Gina
Seven arrows - Storm, Hyemeyohsts
Knuffle Bunny - Willems, Mo

Patty Grace

Little Women - Alcott, Louisa May
A Year by the Sea - Anderson, Joan
The Power of Intention - Dyer, Wayne
Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken
Yoga: the Path to Holistic Health - Iyengar, B.K.S.
The Poisonwood Bible - Kingslover, Barbara
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy - Larsson, Stieg
Atlas Shrugged - Rand, Ayn
The Power of Now - Tolle, Eckhart
Cutting for Stone - Verghese, A.

Judy Harvey

Things Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua
The Maytrees - Dillard, Annie
Voyage: a novel of 1896 - Hayden, Sterling
Unbroken: a World War II story... - Hillenbrand, Laura
Mister Pip - James, Lloyd
Giants in the Earth - Rolvaag, O.E.
...and Ladies of the Club - Sautmyer, Helen
Cleopatra: a life - Schiff, Stacy
Just Kids - Smith, Patti
Crossing to Safety - Stegner, Wallace

Jay Haven

Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken
Tales of the Otori (series) - Hearn, Lian
Star Island - Hiaasen, Carl
The Dangerous Book for Boys - Iggulden, Conn
Downtown Owl - Klosterman, Chuck
The Dark Tower (series) - King, Stephen
11/22/63 - King, Stephen
A Song of Ice and Fire (series)- Martin, George R.R.
True Grit - Portis, Charles
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut, Kurt

Jodi Haven

Seriously, I'm Kidding - DeGeneres, Ellen
Bossypants - Fey, Tina
Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me (and other concerns) Kaling, Mindy
Killing Yourself to Live : 85% of a True Story - Klosterman, Chuck
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Riggs, Ransom
Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler - Rouse, Wade
When You Are Engulfed In Flames - Sedaris, David
Love is a Mix Tape - Sheffield, Rob
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran - Sheffield, Rob
Just Kids - Smith, Patti
This is Where I Leave You - Tropper, Jonathan
The Man Who Quit Money - Sundeen, Mark
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Udall, Brady

Joan Holec

Sunset Park - Auster, Paul
People of the Book - Brooks, Geraldine
Friendship Bread - Gee, Darien
Ten Thousand Saints - Henderson, Eleanor
Conspiracy of Paper - Liss, David
Suite Francaise - Nemirovsky, Irene
The Friendship Test - Noble, Elizabeth
The Lemonade Club - Polacco, Patricia
Blood and Thunder - Sides, Hampton
Saving Max - van Heugten, Antoinette

Matthew Norcross

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams, Douglas
2030: the real story of what happens to America - Brooks, Albert
The Forever War - Filkins, Dexter
The Information: a history, a theory, a flood - Gleick, James
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Haddon, Mark
Memoir from Antproof Case - Helprin, Mark
Fates Will Find Their Way - Pittard, Hannah
Name of the Wind - Rothfuss, Patrick
The Tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival - Valliant, John
Lost in Shangri-La: a true story of survival... - Zuckoff, Mitchell

Lori Pall

The Coroner's Lunch - Cotterill, Craig
Spotted in France - Edmont, Gregory
I Remember Nothing and other reflections - Ephron, Nora
A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author's Life in Paris in the Twenties - Hemingway, Ernest
Alabama Moon - Key, Watt
The English American - Larkin, Alison
I, Elizabeth - Miles, Rosalind
True Grit - Portis, Charles
Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery - Quinn, Spencer
The Name of the Wind - Rothfuss, Patrick

Mary Sue Prantera

All Over but the Shoutin' - Bragg, Rick
The Red Tent - Diamant, Anita
The Innocent Man - Grisham, John
The Kite Runner - Hosseini, Khaled
Into Thin Air - Krakauer, Jon
Anything Considered - Mayle, Peter
Angela's Ashes - McCourt, Frank
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - Sedaris, David
Ambulance Girl - Stern, Jane
The Map that Changed the World - Winchester, Simon

Gerald Rein

Deer Hunting with Jesus - Bageant, Joe
House of Cards - Cohan, William
Nickel and Dimed - Ehrenreich, Barbara
Unequal Protection: the rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights - Hartmann, Thom
Inside of a Dog: what dogs see, smell, and know - Horowitz, Alexandra
Inside Out - Eisler, Barry
The Quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street and nearly destroyed it - Patterson, Scott
Water: the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization - Solomon, Steven
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Stein, Garth
Shadow Elite - Wedel, Janine

Sandy Selden

Once More Around the Park - Angell, Roger
To Begin Again - Fisher, M.F.K.
The Year of the French - Flanagan, Thomas
Suite Francaise - Nemirovsky, Irene
The Last Lecture - Pausch, Randy
Out Stealing Horses - Petterson, Per
Brooklyn - Toibin, Colm
Cheating at Canasta - Trevor, William
The Touchstone - Wharton, Edith

Karen Sherrard

The Saffron Kitchen - Crowther, Yasmin
The Mighty Queens of Freeville - Dickinson, Amy
The Cookbook Collector - Goodman, Allegra
Swan Thieves - Kostova, Elizabeth
How to Read the Air - Mengetsu, Dinaw
The Flying Troutmans - Toews, Miriam
Cutting for Stone - Verghese, Abraham
The Warmth of Other Suns... - Wilkerson, Isabel

Carlin Smith

American West - Ambrose, Stephen
The Greatest Generation - Brokaw, Tom
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bryson, Bill
Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bryson, Bill
Pirate Looks at Fifty: a journal - Buffett, Jimmy
Good to Great: why some companies make the leap, and others don't - Collins, Jim
The Five Temptations of a CEO: a leadership fable - Lencioni, Patrick

Donna Smith

Little Women - Alcott, Louisa May
Jane Eyre - Bronte, Charlotte
Devil in the White City - Larsen, Erik
When the Emperor was Divine - Otsuka, Julie
Tenderness of Wolves - Pinney, Stef
The Golden Compass Trilogy - Pullman, Philip

Emily Smith

Watership Down - Adams, Richard
Pride and Prejudice - Austen, Jane
Wuthering Heights - Bronte, Emily
The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster, Norton
A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle, Madeleine
Dreams from My Father: a story of race and inheritance - Obama, Barack
The Bell Jar - Plath, Sylvia
Me Talk Pretty One Day - Sedaris, David
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut, Kurt
The Book Thief - Zusak, Markus

Dave Snyder

The Language of God - Collins, Francis
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers - Elias, Maurice
The Peril and Promise of Performance Pay - Gratz, Donald
Punished by Rewards - Kohn, Alfie
The Walking - Little, Bentley
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Teabagging of America - Milbank, Dana
Skippy Dies - Murray, Paul
The Genesis of Ethics - Visotzky, Burton L.
Consider the Lobster - Wallace, David Foster

Barbara Steele

Jane Eyre - Bronte, Charlotte
The Big Burn - Egan, Timothy
The City of Shadows - Franklin, Ariana
Unbroken - Hillenbrand, Laura
Shadow Divers - Kurson, Robert
Devil in the White City - Larsen, Erik
Invisible Bridge - Orringer, Julie
The Glass Castle - Walls, Jeannette
Half Broke Horses - Walls, Jeannette

Karen Swick

Green Rider (series) - Britain, Kristen
The Sharing Knife (series) - Bujold, Lois McMaster
Redemption of Althalus - Eddings, David
Carpathian series - Feehan, Christine
Why Mermaids Sing - Harris, C.S.
Dark Hunter series and Dream Hunter series - Kenyon, Sherrilyn
Jouster (series) - Lackey, Mercedes
Skullduggery Pleasant - Landy, Derek
The Twilight Saga - Meyer, Stephenie
Maximum Ride (series) - Patterson, James
The Hollow - Roberts, Nora
The Book Thief - Zusak, Markus

Yertle the Turtle

The Voyage of the Turtle Rex - Cyrus, Kurt
Voice of the Turtle - Duffina, Mary
The Turtle Warrior - Ellis, Mary R.
Turtle Splash! - Falwell, Cathryn
Turtle Moon - Hoffman, Alice
Turtle in Paradise - Holm, Jennifer L.
A Million Visions of Peace: wisdom from the friends of Old Turtle - Garrison, Jennifer
Tess the Sea Turtle Fairy - Meadows, Daisy
Where Should Turtle Be? - Ring, Susan
Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out - Sayre, April Pulley
The Voice of the Turtle - Ulrich, Mary Mills
The Legend of Mackinac Island - Wargin, Kathy Jo
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth - Wood, Douglas

Patricia Rodgers

The Princess Diaries (series) - Cabot, Meg
The Elm Creek Quilts album - Chiaverini, Jennifer
Ten Big Ones - Evanovich, Janet
The Benni Harper (series) - Fowler, Earlene
The Luxe (series) - Godbersen, Anna
Joanna Brady Mystery (series) - Jance, J.A.
Wheel of Time (series) - Jordan, Robert
The Mage Winds Trilogy - Lackey, Mercedes
Too Late to Say Goodbye: a true story of muder and betrayal - Rule, Ann
The Boxcar Children (series) - Warner, Gertrude Chandler